Manifolding book



March 26, 1929. H. SHEETS 1,706,711 v MANIFOLDING BOOK Filed Sept. '7.1922 0 INVENTOR v I 4 u TTORNEY pasta Mar. 26, 1929.

1' UNITED STATES HENRY E. SIEIEIFYJPS,

1,706,711 PATENT OFFICE F SHELBY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHELBYSALQESBOOK COM.- PANY, OIE SHELBY, OHIO, A CORPORATION 01 OHIO.

. MANIFOLDING BOOK. 1,

- Application filed September 7, 1922. Serial No. 586.606;

The invention relates to manifolding, de-

. provision of a manifolding book wherewith two, three or more copiesmay be madeat one writing and wherein the transfer sheet may readily beapplied and removed from operative position. 1 p

I Another object of the invention is the pro-- vision of a manifoldingbook of the character above referred to adapted for manipulalu tionwithout necessitating the grasping s of the transfer leaf in theordinary'operations 1 record leaves of thepad 6. In the embodiof settingand manipulating the book.

Other objects will be in part obviousand in part pointedv outhereinafter. I The invention accordingly consists in the features ofconstruction, combinations ofelements and arrangement of parts whichwill be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and thescope of'the application 2 of which will appear in the'appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of the specification andwherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughoutthe several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a manifolding book embodying theinvention;

Fig. 2 is plan view, partly broken away;

I and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a section of the backingshowingthe 'relation of the transfer sheet.

Referring now more specifically to the -drawing, the numerals- 1, 2 and3 indicate j three sections of a backing, these sections be-; ing hingedtogether at 4 and .-5. The sections are preferably of stiff material andmay be covered with cloth, and the cloth may be utilized to provide'thehinges 4.- and 5. The numeral 6 indicates a pad removablyheld to one endof the backing section 3 by the'spring clip 7. This pad maybe composedof a plurality of similar sets of original and duplicate leaves,preferably opaque leaves of soft material, as paper,- adapted fortransfer of inscription from one'to the other through the interpositionof transfer material. In Fig. 1 the uppermost set of these leaves isshown with the original leaf 8 thrown back to disclosethe duplicate leaf9.

These two leaves may be formed from an integral sheet reverselyfolded'on itself and weakened along the line 10, the duplicate leafbeing extended to provide the usual stub portion for binding it in thepad. In addition to the sets of record leaves as 8 and 9, the padincludes a series, of tissue record leaves 11 bound to the pad above theuppermost set of:record leaves 8 and. 9. The samj staples 12 may be usedto bind both kinds of record leaves and form the stub end of the pad. InFig. 1 the tissue leaves .11 are shown as thrown back. i j i The numeral13 indicates a transfer sheet or leaf which is. adapted to bemanipulated into and out of superposed relation with the side of thebacking section 3, the jaw 14 having a flange 16 riveted or otherwisefastened to the face of said backing section to hold this jaw in" place.1 The transferleaf 13 may be coated on its opposite faceswith carbontransfer material and at its outer free edge is provided with cutawayportions, or access notches which, in the present embodiment,

I are formed by cutting off the corners of the otherwise rectangulartransfer sheet 13 as indicated at 17 and 18.

To setthe book for making three copies at one writing the transfer leaf13 is swung, or

moved, around the clamp as an axis into position lying upon theduplicate leaf 9 of the uppermost set of original and duplicate leaves.Thereupon one of the tissue leaves 11 (the uppermost leaf 11 as viewedin Fig.

1)' is moved to lie'upon the transfer leaf and thereafter the originalleaf 8 of the uppermost set is folded. on the line 10'to lie upon theinterposed tissue leaf. Inscription made upon the upper face of theoriginal;

leaf will be transferred to the duplicate leaf 9jand to the underface ofthe triplicate tis-.

sue leaf 11 and may be read through the latter. After inscription theoriginal triplicate and duplicate leaves of the inscribed set may begrasped at the lower right hand corner adjacent the access notch 18 inthe transfer leaf, but without gripping the transfer leaf, and by asidewise movement the duplicate leaf 9 may be torn from the stub of thepad along a weakened line adjacent the stub.

The original leaf of the next underlying set will then be disclosedunderlying the transfer leaf 13, the upper free end or right hand cornerof the original leaf presenting itself toward the stub and outside themargin of the adjacent access notch 17 This exgosedv portion of theoriginal leaf may be grasped, without touching the transfer leaf, anddrawn from beneath the transfer leaf, permitting the transfer leaf torest upon the next duplicate leaf 9. Thereupon the book again may besetfor inscription as above explained. 1 r v j The transfer leaf preferablyincludes extended transfer leaf portion 20, conveniently made integralwith the transfer leaf 13 and preferably a duplicatethereof andincluding access notches 21 and 22 like those at 17 and 18. In theembodiment illustrated the integral transfer sheet, composedof theportions 13 and 20,is grippedat an intermediate part between the jaws'14 and so that the immediately operative portion 13,

rated and the transfer sheet removed and reversed end for end and thetransfer leaf portion utilized for interleaving with the a recordleaves. The clamping jaws 1 1 and 15,

as illustrated, provide wide surfaces result: ing in the effectivegripping of the transfer sheet and thus there practically no tendencyfor the holding device to impair the hold part of this sheet, nor is thesheet weakened as it would he were it stitched or otherwise similarlyfastened to the backing 3 or to the pad 6. p

In Fig. 2, the record leaves of most set are shown inposition forinscription, a tissue, or triplicate leaf 11, being heneath the originalleaf 8, and lying on the transfer sheet 13, which, in turn, lies on theduplicate leaf 9, It will be seen that the upper and lower outer cornersof the origi- "nal and duplicate leaves lie superposed relative to therecess notches 17 and 18, perthe uppermitting their being grasped atthose corners without touching the transfer leaf.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished among otherstheobjects horeinbefore referred to. 7 7

As many changes; could be made in the above construction and manyapparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be madewithout departing from the scope-thereof, it is intended that all mattercontained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawingsshall be interpreted'as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. V r

Having described my invention, what I claim as'new and desire to secureby'Letters Patent isi A manifolding book including, in combination, abinding stub, a plurality of record sheets bound togetheratoneedge intosaid stub so as to swing therefrom, each record sheet being foldedbackwardly upon itself intermediate its ends to form two relativelysuperposed record leaves including abound leaf held withinsaid stub anda reversely dii-sposed'leaf CZLlTlK-B'Cl bythe free "end of said boundleaf and having its free end disposed toward said stub, a transfersheet, transfer 'sheetattaching means for attaching the transfer sheetto the book, said attaching means beingrelatively positioned withreference to said binding stub so as to support the transfer sheet forswinging movement from the side of the book at an angle to the swingingmovement of said record sheets into manifolding relation successivelybetween the said leaves of the successive record sheets, said transfersheet having cut away portions positioned atparts thereof spaced alongits free edge, one of said cut-away portions, when said transfer sheetis in transfer position between the two record leaves of one of saidrecord sheets, being adjacent the fold of said record sheet whereby aportion of the latter isexposed from overlapping relation with-saidtransfer sheet to present a grasping area, and

another of said cut-away portions being positioned nearer said bindingstub whereby the next successivo roversely disposed leaf is exposedtoward its free end through the cut-away portion from beneath theoverlying transfersheet. 1 r

In testiinonywhereof I affix my signature.

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